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The fiscal side of Europe’s energy crisis: the facts, problems and prospects
Europe needs to move beyond emergency fiscal responses and focus on structural changes to allow the EU to accelerate its decoupling from fossil fuels.
Is Europe failing on import diversification?
Despite a goal of economic self-reliance, the European Union’s imports are generally sourced from an increasingly limited set of suppliers.
The difficulty of designating gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act
The European Commission should be more precise and transparent when designating gatekeepers under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
Europe’s half a million barrels per day diesel supply question
A new European Union embargo on Russian oil products should not affect EU diesel supplies and prices, but could encourage re-routing by Russia.
Web3: the next internet revolution
Tokenisation based on blockchain technology could bring radical changes to markets for goods and services.
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17 May 2016
Assessing the Juncker Plan after one year
With the Juncker Plan, the European Commission intends to support valuable risky projects by expanding the risk capacity of the EIB. But has the new E
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16 May 2016
Regulation and growth
What’s at stake: A heated debate took place this week on the blogosphere on the link between regulation and growth following an op-ed by John Cochrane
Blog post
11 May 2016
Brazil can learn from Spain: don't delay adjustment
Brazil’s economic crisis has much in common with Spain’s crisis from 2009 – 2012. The IMF and the global community must work together to ensure a stab
Blog post
10 May 2016
The European Union remains a laggard on banking supervisory transparency
Financial supervisors must provide the public with more information about the European banking sector in order to ensure financial stability. The leve
Blog post
09 May 2016
The rebellion of globalisation’s losers
What’s at stake: The prevailing narrative for the rise of anti-establishment politicians is that advocates of integration vastly underestimated the pl
Blog post
07 May 2016
Is Greek public debt unsustainable?
Greek public debt does not look sustainable if the country has to return to market borrowing at the end of the third bail-out programme, but could be
Blog post
03 May 2016
E-commerce: an opportunity for growth in Europe, for people and business
Statement from Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market, following Bruegel's ev
Blog post
03 May 2016
Northern Ireland and EU funds
EU funding for the UK has risen considerably since 2000, but funding predominantly goes to rural and less developed areas, meaning that Northern Irela
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02 May 2016
The economics of crime and punishment
What’s at stake: The Senate announced this week revisions to a sentencing reform bill – the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act – that would lower m
Blog post
27 April 2016
The knowns and unknowns of the European competitiveness debate
Micro-economic features of economic systems can have a major impact on national performance. Policymakers should therefore reconfigure their scoreboar
Blog post
25 April 2016
Understanding HM Treasury’s Brexit analysis
What’s at stake: The UK will hold a referendum on its membership of the EU on June 23rd 2016. Her Majesty’s Treasury released an assessment of the imp
Blog post
22 April 2016
Italy's Atlas bank bailout fund: the shareholder of last resort
Italy’s new bank fund Atlas might be what is needed in the short run, but in the longer term the fund will increase systemic risk. What ultimately mat
Blog post
19 April 2016
Are regional governments causing deficit overshooting in Spain?
Spain once again missed its deficit target in 2015 and it seems unlikely that 2016 will be any better. The central government has pointed to regional
Blog post
18 April 2016
The implications of the Panama Papers
What’s at stake: The Panama Papers leaked last week raised important questions about the role of tax havens. We explain the mechanics of tax evasion a
Blog post
14 April 2016
Japan needs labour market reform, not just higher wages
The Japanese government is trying to boost wages, but this is not enough to jumpstart growth. Japan needs to reform its labour market to increase the
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13 April 2016
Youth unemployment in the Mediterranean region and its long-term implications
Youth unemployment in the Mediterranean region has consequences for the whole of Europe. Tackling youth unemployment in the region must continue to be
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